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And I'm the opposite. I seldom listen to music in the house, and as a matter of fact pretty much only when I am in the garage. I have just a simple am/fm radio and play it when I know I will be in the garage for some time. Otherwise no music unless I am in the car. I don't even play the stereo in my wife's car just when I by myself in my car...

I have had company for the last week but I am actually getting ready to bring the car home from storage and maybe get started on the swap. One of the things I wanted to sort out prior to dropping the engine was installation of the front engine harness which snakes through the front brackets and accessories. It connects the ICM, cam sensor, crank sensor and it plugs in at the right rear of the engine. My donor engine which gave up the supercharger did have this harness in place but it appeared to be damaged after stripping the crusty loom from it. The photo below shows what I mean although as it turns out, only one item is actual damage. The green wire at upper left is indeed damage from unknown cause. The dead end black wire next to it goes nowhere. I imagined there was something missing that connected to it but this is not so. This wire connects to cavity “k” at the ICM which is not actually used so there is nothing wrong with it. The other two items toward the right side are spliced wires that were covered with deteriorating tape, one white and one red set. Again it was assumed to be damage but it is in fact correct as built. This harness has very minor color differences from the LN3 but is otherwise perfectly usable, repairs aside. I ordered a replacement from Jim Finn and while installing new outer loom on the replacement I found a pair of wires that had a section of insulation about 3/8” long missing. The pair of wires were actually stuck together and touching where bare of insulation in a common loom to the cam sensor. I don’t know if this is very common but issues were noted on both harnesses I took apart which seems to be a trend??

I was looking to replace the 'vert's stereo as it didn't play all the speakers, so on Ebay I found a guy that reconditions stereos and found one like yours but was cassette instead of CD. Didn't matter to me as I had him set it up with Bluetooth for my wife and MP3 for me. Then Infinity speakers all around and like I said Kicker powered sub woofer. I got the Kicker idea from "Cargirl" from "over there. The reason I liked the powered subwoofer is I could wire all my Reattas with Kicker harnesses and swap the subwoofer from car to car. Because I now have one Reatta in Texas all the time I found another Kicker sub woofer for whatever Reatta is there. The Red has actually the best sound and I don't know what the P.O. did. The speakers are unmarked and I never had the "popping" issue so I am guessing he had the stereo rebuilt and maybe upgraded? Sounds better then any speaker system I put in any of the "winter Black" Reattas I have/had. IMHO sounds better then the 'verts which isn' hard to believe because the vert either has it's top down and sound is lost, or when the top is up doesn't have the same sound qualities. BTW the Kicker 250 I bought were on Ebay and Craigslist. Way cheaper then the price at Walmart who carried them at the time. Ship you could do the same on your Reatta and Riv [unless you have a different sound system in the Riv. Wiring is simple, power wire to the fuse box, ground in the trunk and tap into the rear speakers.

My radio works but I rarely listen to it. I like the windows down and the wind and road noise sort of drowns out the music details. Maybe it would sound better if I had a kicker for more bass.

Ever since I bought my '91 Reatta (2013) I've been on the lookout for an OEM CD player but have never found one that worked. Over this past Winter, Marck of EastCoast Reatta Parts had on sale some BUICK radio/CD players (I think they are from Buick Regals). The radio/CD is one unit, not like the separate radio and CD that was original to Riveras and Reattas. But these radio/CD players fit right where our '90 - '91 current radios are located...just a simple swap out. The face is very similar to our current radios, with the added attraction of a little Bluetooth pinhole connection. Southeastern MA had some pleasant weather one day last week, so I decided to do the radio swap. I'm quite familiar with the dash removal process since I've done this a few times with the two '92 Rivieras I previously owned. Marck did include removal/install and radio/CD player operating instructions with the shipment. I removed the dash facia and HVAC/radio combo. I swapped the old radio with the new radio/CD player and reattached it to the HVAC. I put everything back together...easy, peesy. Fired up the unit with a CD in play. Because the Reatta cabin is small, the sound is unbelievably fantastic!